Linking social axioms with behavioural outcomes in Romanian organizational settings
Keywords:
social axioms, job satisfaction, organizational justice, organizational commitmentAbstract
The present study attempts to explore how psychological characteristics measured through social axioms, affect the perception of organizational level constructs like organizational justice and job satisfaction and ultimately lead to behavioural outcomes measured through organizational commitment. The resulted models confirm the previously known relations between organizational justice, job satisfaction and commitment, expanding the existing base of knowledge by focusing on the relations between the dimensions of the constructs. Its main contribution is that it’s among the first studies that tests the applicability of social axioms in an organizational setting. The research was successful in its main objective which was linking social axioms to behavioural outcomes in an organizational setting. The resulted model serves as proof that the construct is a valuable addition for understanding how people behave in an organization.
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